WASHINGTON – The use of seduction to retrieve classified information is as old as time itself.

“The world’s first intelligence officer was in disguise as the serpent in the Garden of Eden,” said H. Keith Melton, technical adviser to U.S. intelligence services. “He recruited Eve to use sex to compromise Adam.”

And since then,Melton said the world’s two oldest businesses – sex and espionage – have been virtually inseparable.